Monday, April 5, 2010

After Sharpe's Peril last week, this week on PBS Masterpiece Classic (Check your local listings for exact date and time) is Anne Frank. Airing on April 11, Sunday or for some April 10 Saturday. Hosted by Laura Linney. For more information click here http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/annefrank/index.html

or go to the side of this page and click on the picture.

Watch online on the PBS website from April 12 - May 11.

The Plot:

For Jewish teenager Anne Frank (Ellie Kendrick), her diary is her one true friend and confidant. In it, she records the thoughts of a typical teen — only set against a backdrop of encroaching evil in Amsterdam during World War II. Stowed away behind a bookcase in a secret annex with her family and others to flee the Nazis, Anne experiences her time in hiding as an adventure. And, amidst closed quarters and random bomb blasts, Anne faces friction with family, a desire for independence and the first stirrings of young love. As Anne's identity solidifies, so does her resolve to be a writer — her diary a tangible and remarkable record of a young woman's first-hand observations of the Holocaust, and the innate goodness she still sees in people. Drawing on Anne Frank's own words in the most accurate-ever adaptation of the revered memoir, Masterpiece presents The Diary of Anne Frank on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2010.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

April O' April. Well i just can't believe March is done. It's amazing how fast the year is flying by already. Well i really liked this picture above. Thought it was really beautiful.For my characters i have picked:Anne Elliot from Persuasion by Jane AustenandAnne Latimer from North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.Any more A names???Thanks !!!!

Colonel Richard Sharpe (Sean Bean, The Lord of the Rings) may have a nose for mischief, but his only interest now is returning to England. But before he goes, he is prevailed on for one last, seemingly straightforward duty — safe transport of some property across central India. The "property" in question turns out to be Marie-Angelique (Beatrice Rosen, 2012), who Sharpe quickly pegs as petulant, spoiled and selfish. The journey, through more than 600 miles of hostile territory, will prove to be riddled with surprises and rebellion and bring Sharpe, his comrade-in-arms Patrick Harper (Daragh O'Malley) and their ragtag troops into a dark conspiracy and one climactic, perilous battle. Sharpe's Peril is based on the characters created by novelist Bernard Cornwell. (One episode; 120 minutes; TV-PG)

Monday, March 8, 2010

Sadly i really wanted to see this movie but it is rated R. But for me it looks really interesting and it looks like a really great story. Running time is: 112 min. and like i said it is rated R. Byt the way its pretty cool that James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff are in this movie together

London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year-old English poet, John Keats (Ben Whishaw), and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), an out-spoken student of high fashion. This unlikely pair begin at odds, he thinking her a stylish minx, while she was unimpressed not only by his poetry but also by literature in general

The Young Victoria to home best costume again for the Academy Awards. I think it did well in that area because they really deserved it. For a smaller budget film it is so amazing that they made it the the awards. It amazed me like how Precious made it from Sun dance to theaters.

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"Seize your chance of happiness"

Arthur Clennem, Little Dorrit

"Her look at her father, half admiring him and proud of him, half ashamed for him, all devoted and loving, went to his inmost heart."

Little Dorrit~

"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.""How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"Elizabeth Gaskell~

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Curse of the blue Tattoo, L. A Meyer (Click on the picture to be taken to the website)

Sonnet 116

"Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tepests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's compass come:Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom.If this be error and upon me proved,I never writ, nor no man ever loved...Shakespeare~

Sonnet 29

'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,I all alone beweep my outcast state,And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,And look upon myself, and curse my fate,Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,With what i most enjoy contented least:Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,Haply i think on thee, and then my stateLike to the lark at break of day arising from sullen earthSings hymns at heaven's gate;For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth bringsThat then i scorn to change my state with kings.'